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Deltaslug

Deltaslug

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If you looked over my resume, it wasn't hard to see:
Some technical writing
Some testing
A lot of stuff that screams "technician" rather than "engineer"

Plus I didn't have real exposure to the things the market was really looking for. (In this case, exposure to the engineering standards that come with proper manufacturing.)

Now I have that key word for the resume. which I didn't have in mid 2017.

04-Jan-2019 20:43:21

Deltaslug

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Azi.
You're not dumb.
You clearly have some creative talent if you're able to keep doing these stories and roleplays.
You've done a lot of artistic/creative writing.

What you could consider is what fields you could get into that utilize it.
Also, doesn't hurt to apply to entry level writing positions yourself.

Afterall, the first few months, even year, at a place is a glorified on the job training.
Some white collar positions have longer development times than others.

It's simply a matter of what you're willing to try and how you present yourself.

The other half of it is ... I understand self doubt. I understand thinking you're less than what you are. I do it a lot.

The thing you may need to consider is: what will it take for you to dig in and do more?

I coasted at my previous job because it was a combination of decent pay, I liked what I did, and I liked where I was. When I hated where I was, I stopped liking what I did. The pay wasn't high enough for me to stomach it. (If I was a Quality engineer, dear god I would have been well below market. But as a super-tech, I was above market.)

Took me 3 months of interviews and rejections to realize WTF I was missing from my resume. I was terrified of having to go back and pay for school. (Yes, I can easily afford it. I just didn't want to pay current costs for another 2+ years if I could avoid it.)

The group who laid me off, as far as I was concerned, basically gave me a paid training.

04-Jan-2019 20:46:10 - Last edited on 04-Jan-2019 20:50:42 by Deltaslug

Deltaslug

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In my case: I've worked minimum wage. I don't want to go back.
If I half tried, sure I could run a Wendy's or McDonald's or a Dollar Store. (As the Sword Art Online Abridge Kirito once said about his fellow players "not that most of them top out at Assistant Manager at Kinkos" )
But I don't want to.

But to earn more, I have to do more.

And it means doing things NOW I should have done years ago.

It is easy to fall into that self loathing phase.

What are you good at or can do?
What do YOU want to do?
What do YOU need to do get there?

04-Jan-2019 20:54:28 - Last edited on 04-Jan-2019 20:57:26 by Deltaslug

Deltaslug

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I do appologize for focusing on myself. But I can be a very good example of "what not to do".
(Something I sometimes have to tell my nephew as to why he shouldn't spend too much time watching tv or video games. I've done it. I was addicted [as in seriously]. And it is painful to stop.)

I guess you could also look at it as it's easy not to fail if you don't try.
That does factor into a lot of us.

I've developed in a life a very binary outlook. No self confidence but a question of ability, necessity, and desire.
Can I do it? Yes or No. (ie: Can I drive into work today? Can something be built?) Not a matter of "if" but yes or no.
Do I want to do it? Yes or no. Ability be darned, but is there any interest in me doing something.
Do I have to do it? Yes or no. (Getting a degree to meet a metric for a job? Something to put food on the table?)

Somewhere in there is what drives me. Not in any need to better myself for self improvement or actual desire ... but because I have to. And if I can do it, then I simply do it.

Azi,
I'm not sure what your self confidence level is. But it sounds like it is as low as mine.
I don't know what your academic potential is. I'm guessing there are areas you haven't really developed to the extent they could be.
I do know you haven't been given opportunity. I also know that yes, they aren't always easy to get. But following into the those simple questions, you have to put something out there in order to create the possibility of an opportunity.

And sometimes ... dumb luck comes into the equation more than we realize.
Perhaps that's the biggest part of my life to date than anything else.

But before you go calling yourself a failure ... think about this ... have you stopped trying?
If you haven't stopped, then you haven't failed. The game isn't over yet.

04-Jan-2019 21:16:10 - Last edited on 04-Jan-2019 21:33:38 by Deltaslug

Azi Demonica

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I also suck at interviews. I am honest and talk about myself, but that’s just about it. Indeed, who you and your family knows, helps a ton. I have no friends, my dad has no friends, so my chances at getting a job are low.

Hm, that co-worker really sucks. I’d get fed-up quickly and just leave her office right after her finished her phone call. Bad managers was also the reason I left the plywood plant. How she expected to learn a few years of electrical engineering is haywire.

Hm, having keywords in your resume is very smart, so well done on that!

I do have some creative skills and experience. Ironically, everything I’m good at is inapplicable in the real world or for jobs. But ya, maybe I should begin my writing career somewhere, see what happens.

We both have self-doubt for sure, yeah. I don’t consider myself important, so I live simply.

I was always a bad student, but education is power and importance. Paid training sounds cool, though.

But yes, what do I do to dig in? Perhaps freelance writing, I can try something like that. I spend so much time writing for nothing and no one, that maybe if I were to spend all that time in freelance writing somehow, perhaps I would eventually begin a career?

Ha! I am also a good example of ‘what not to do’, I’ve always been like that. Whenever I do something I want, bad things happen. But when I follow advice, good results can happen. I am losing interesting in gaming. Stopped watching TV long ago. Creating literary projects is all that interests me.

True, Delta, I’ve never had opportunities. I was always alone, left out, friendless, unwanted. But I like people very much. It’s also very true that if you don’t stop, you don’t fail. I never stop. I often fail, but I don’t stop. I finished my BioShock fanfic in my hotel suite. It’s over two hundred thousand words long, and the average novel is about 120,000 words. I made the fanfic for a single reader, and put everything in me to do it, and finished in about half a year.

04-Jan-2019 22:54:55

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